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The Top 40 Most Read Wikipedia Pages Of 2020 Perfectly Capture The Hellscape That Was 2020

This list sums up the year pretty well.

Matt Stopera
by Matt Stopera

BuzzFeed Staff

40. Shooting of Breonna Taylor

A woman standing in front of a mural of Breonna Taylors that's surrounded with flowers and tributes
Brandon Bell / Getty Images

11,636,746 views.

39. List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films

Xinhua News Agency / Getty Images

11,658,923 views.

38. Antifa (United States)

Protesters and police officers face off
Anadolu Agency / Getty Images

11,774,816 views.

37. Charles, Prince of Wales

Prince Charles walking with Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton behind him
Ben Stansall / Getty Images

11,885,572 views.

36. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip standing with Queen Elizabeth
Jeff Haynes / Getty Images

12,145,542 views.

35. Tenet (film)

Poster for Tenet featuring John David Washington
Sopa Images / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

12,354,787 views.

34. COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Two medical professionals standing next to a hospital bed
Barcroft Media / Getty Images

12,360,869 views.

33. Joe Exotic

Netflix

12,877,423 views.

32. Billie Eilish

Kevin Winter / Getty Images

13,090,544 views.

31. List of presidents of the United States

Abraham Lincoln
Getty Images

13,268,661 views.

30. Diana, Princess of Wales

Mirrorpix / Getty Images

13,448,668 views.

29. Killing of George Floyd

Protestors holding a posters that reads 'I can't breath' with hand prints all over it
Lily Franey / Getty Images

13,674,368 views.

28. Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein's mugshot
Handout / Getty Images

13,846,908 views.

27. Alexander Hamilton

Pictore / Getty Images

14,471,378 views.

26. Barack Obama

Medianews Group / Getty Images

14,568,113 views.

25. Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Ipc Magazines / Getty Images

14,763,684 views.

24. United States Electoral College

Oleksii Arseniuk / Getty Images

14,819,264 views.

23. YouTube

Aj_watt / Getty Images

15,044,125 views.

22. United States

Yevhen Borysov / Getty Images

16,959,947 views.

21. Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick giving the 'Wakanda Forever' salute at the Howard University graduation ceremony
The Washington Post / The Washington Post via Getty Images

17,060,572 views.

20. Parasite (2019 film)

Bong Joon-ho, the director of Parasite
The Fact / Getty Images

17,539,085 views.

19. QAnon

A shirtless man with a poster supporting QAnon
Olivier Touron / Getty Images

18,070,938 views.

18. COVID-19 pandemic in India

Man wearing a mask sitting on a bench
Getty Images

18,598,599 views.

17. Sushant Singh Rajput

Hindustan Times / Getty Images

18,631,858 views.

16. COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Thank You Key Workers written on windows
Georgie Wileman / Getty Images

19,266,908 views.

15. Coronavirus disease 2019

Covid-19 under the microscope
Zhangshuang / Getty Images

20,492,847 views.

14. Michael Jordan

Mitchell Layton / Getty Images

20,745,473 views.

13. 2016 United States presidential election

Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton on the debate stage
St. Louis Post-dispatch / Getty Images

21,240,023 views.

12. Elon Musk

Britta Pedersen / Getty Images

21,459,625 views.

11. Spanish flu

Universal History Archive via Getty Images

22,239,766 views.

10. Elizabeth II

Carl Court / Getty Images

24,147,675 views.

9. 2020 United States presidential election

Sopa Images / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

24,313,110 views.

8. COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory

Sopa Images / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

28,575,982 views.

7. Kobe Bryant

Medianews Group / Getty Images

32,863,656 views.

6. Coronavirus

Mark Makela / Getty Images

32,957,565 views.

5. Joe Biden

Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images

34,281,120 views.

4. Kamala Harris

Vice President-elect Harris receiving the Corona virus vaccine
Alex Edelman / Getty Images

38,319,706 views.

3. Deaths in 2020

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Medianews Group / Getty Images

42,262,147 views.

2. Donald Trump

Taylor Hill / Getty Images

55,472,791 views.

1. COVID-19 pandemic

Noam Galai / Getty Images

83,040,504 views.

Source: The Wikimedia Foundation.

Note: These are the top 40 pages for English Wikipedia only.